ARCfs & password encryption

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3 total messages Started by Titch Thu, 17 Dec 1992 10:24

#674

Author: Titch
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 10:24

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I have an Internet-less friend who has a serious problem: she has ARCfs'd a
great deal of stuff on her A440 to, obviously, save space. Unfortunately 
someone (she swears not her) has encrypted the whole lot using the password
option within the ARCfs menu (the password is unknown).

Questions:
	Is it possible for her to recover the encrypted archives?
	Could a virus have accessed the password encryption feature
	within ARCfs?

Any help and advice much appreciated.

Cheers,

Rich.

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Re: ARCfs & password encryption

#722

Author: Mr R E Broadley
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 23:09

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In article <1992Dec17.102446.2945@unix.brighton.ac.uk> rjb12@unix.brighton.ac.uk (Titch) writes:
>I have an Internet-less friend who has a serious problem: she has ARCfs'd a
>great deal of stuff on her A440 to, obviously, save space. Unfortunately 
>someone (she swears not her) has encrypted the whole lot using the password
>option within the ARCfs menu (the password is unknown).

Just a hunch, but try examining the archive using archiver (e.g. !SparkFS or a
different version of !ArcFS). It's possible that the archive viewer you are
using thinks it is password protected when it isn't. I have heard of this
happening when an archive using squash compression (with !SparkFS) was trying
to be read with !ArcFS (which might not handle squash compression).

Hope this helps,
	Richard
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Re: ARCfs & password encryption

#491

Author: Alan Glover
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 11:03

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>Questions:
> Is it possible for her to recover the encrypted archives?

Probably not very easily. One thought - turn on the garble option, but
don't enter a password ... this may be what happened in the first
place.

> Could a virus have accessed the password encryption feature
> within ARCfs?
 
I don't know of any that do this.

Alan
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